Bhutan

News about Bhutan, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Mar. 13, 2015

National soccer team of Bhutan, ranked lowest in world, beats Sri Lanka, 1-0, in first match of 2018 World Cup qualifiers; is not expected to advance further, but revels in unexpected victory. MORE

Nov. 28, 2013

Memo From South Asia; although elections remain far from trouble-free in countries like the Maldives, Nepal and Bhutan, that they are happening at all is encouraging. MORE

Oct. 15, 2013

Basketball in Bhutan, after decades of being largely a game for royalty, is about to have its breakout moment, as South Korean coach has been hired to build a national team; country has tried many times to win an international game without success; main obstacle is height, as few Bhutanese people are taller than six feet. MORE

Oct. 5, 2013

Saturday Profile of Tshering Tobgay, newly elected prime minister of Bhutan; Tobgay won unlikely victory over Bhutan's governing party in July 2013 and is overseeing country of 725,000 people in midst of one of most thorough transformations in the world. MORE

Sep. 3, 2013

Archers from all over Bhutan participate in the Yangphel archery tournament, national championship which is held on a centuries-old archery pitch; archery is the national sport of Bhutan, tiny Himalayan nation squeezed between India and China. MORE

Jun. 29, 2013

Op-Ed article by Bhutan News Service editor Vidhyapati Mishra describes history behind refugee crisis in Bhutan, tiny kingdom that expelled nearly 100,000 people of mostly Nepalese origin in early 1990s; calls on United Nations to insist that Bhutan honor its convention on refugees, and respect right of expelled to return to their homes. MORE

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